1066 was not only the start of the Norman era in England. It effectively closed the Viking era as well. Less than three weeks before the Battle of Hastings, Harold of England defeated and killed the giant Harald Hardradi of Norway at Stamford Bridge in Yorkshire. King Harald's Saga, written by the Icelandic historian, Snorri Sturluson, records the turbulent life of a warrior who served and fought in every corner of Europe, from Russia to Sicily, and tells how the last of the great Vikings was rewarded, for his claim to the English throne, with `seven feet of English soil....'

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